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yep....Mourinho is the best
And mind you.....as a Benfica supporter, I have to live with the chance that we might have been in Porto´s place had our last president not sacked Mourinho as soon as he got elected. But Mourinho was the man from the previous president and so he could not go on....despite winning his last game before the sacking by 3-0 against sporting.
If you didn-t knew, Mourinho started his career as a translator and assistant manager to Bobby Robson at Sporting, then proceeded with Mr. Robson to Porto after Robson was sacked mid season. In Porto they won the league and did well in the champions and when Barcelona invited Robson, he took Mourinho as an Assistant manager....they built that great team with Ronaldo, Figo, De la Pena, Guardiola....who doesn´t remember the golden days of Ronaldo??? Mourinho was there behind! Mourinho stayed as Assistant with Van Gaall and was actualy in charge of team when Van Gaal was sacked. He later left Barcelona because he felt he deserved to have a career as Manager and it was time to stop being the second in charge.
The first team to place him as manager was Benfica, by the hand of the now arrested president Vale Azevedo. However, Azevedo was already having too much trouble everywhere and Mourinho payed for being the last hope of a leaving president. He stayed less than half season in Benfica from where he got back to unemployment. Next year he was apointed manager of the mid-table team Leiria and the dream started there!!!!
He managed to bring the modest Leiria to the top places in the portuguese league, he had with him the now known Derlei and Nuno Valente. They were actually in 3rd placing and near the top when Porto sacked their manager and signed him at like 3/4 of the season. Porto was a mess and Mourinho was only able to finish in 3rd place with them that season....they did came from 5th to 3rd moving over Leiria who went down.
Next two seasons are now well known as one of the best football legends all time
But here you have the story behind the legend!
